Ulrich Eckhardt said: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 17:05, William E. Kempf wrote: >> JOLY Loic said: >> > 1/ Dynamic libraries >> > Although I compiled boost with the option "-sBUILD=debug release >> <runtime-link>static/dynamic", the library is still generated as a >> DLL. I do not exactly know what is meant by "static" in this case. >> >> <runtime-link> specifies how you link against the C RTL, not what type >> of library will be built. >> >> Currently (and for the forseeable future), Boost.Threads will only >> produce dynamic link libraries. Read the mail archives for a detailed >> explanation of why. > > There is on rather hackish way to use static linkage. We simply setup > three .cpp-files that included the .cpp-files from out of the boost > sourcetree. Works fine for 1.28 and 1.29 and only required one > conditional for 1.30. If there is interest, I can post these files here > (I'm not at work atm...).
Prior to 1.30 there'd have been no need to do this. Most of Boost.Threads was a static library. The exception was thread_mon.dll which was required for thread_specific_ptr<>, and there's simply no way out on that one, it must be a DLL. The Boost.Threads implementation will be relying on TLS data internally very shortly... at which point there will be no way to "hack" the code into a static library, so I wouldn't recommend doing so now. Sorry. -- William E. Kempf _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
